Busy Bike Shop Empowers Local Community with Skills and Gifts

When Judge Schwall cited the presence of Occupy Atlanta inside the Pine and Peachtree homeless shelter in Atlanta as one of the main reasons for ordering a change of management for the shelter, Occupy Atlanta invited the media to show what “radical” meant. Among the various community-centric projects organized at the shelter, the SHIFT Community Bike Shop is the one that caught the most attention. It was buzzing with activity, no dollar was exchanged, and as Jonah Bautista stated in a video later aired on 11 News Channel, “If this is what radical means, so be it. We’re changing the system from the inside out for the better”.

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